{"id":10210,"date":"2011-11-06T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/a-memory-of-teaching\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:55:56","slug":"a-memory-of-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/a-memory-of-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"A Memory of Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I am enjoying teaching quite a bit now that I no longer do it. With some things it is not the doing of it that we like so much as the having done it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One day in class I carefully explained the abbreviation \u2018iff\u2019 often employed by philosophers and mathematicians to avoid writing \u2018if and only if.\u2019 I explained the logical differences among \u2018if,\u2019 \u2018only if,\u2019 and \u2018if and only if.\u2019 I gave examples. I brought in necessary and sufficient conditions. The whole shot. But I wasn\u2019t all that surprised when I later read a student comment to the effect that Dr. V. can\u2019t spell \u2018if.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am enjoying teaching quite a bit now that I no longer do it. With some things it is not the doing of it that we like so much as the having done it. One day in class I carefully explained the abbreviation \u2018iff\u2019 often employed by philosophers and mathematicians to avoid writing \u2018if and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/a-memory-of-teaching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Memory of Teaching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}